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Korean
Etymology
From Early Modern Korean 열ᄆᆡ (yelmoy), 열매 (yelmay).
Displaced Middle Korean 여름〮 (yèlúm, “fruit”), a nominalization of 열〯다〮 (yěltá, “to ripen”), due to normal sound changes transforming 녀름〮 (nyèlúm, “summer”) into the homophone 여름 (yelum, “summer”).[1] From Old Korean 菓音 (*YELUm).
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | yeolmae |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | yeolmae |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | yŏlmae |
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| Yale Romanization? | yel.may |
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Noun
열매 • (yeolmae)
- (also figuratively) fruit
See also
- 果 (gwa), 實 (sil), hanja for "fruit"
References
- ^ “여름열매 [yeoreum-yeolmae]”, in 온라인가나다 [ollain'ganada], 국립국어원 [gungnipgugeowon], 2016 May 16, archived from the original on 12 June 2020